June 2010
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Prep Summer Leadership Camp II
Br. John Hanson and I had the pleasure of taking the second summer Leadership campers on a tour of the Abbey Church today. Below is the picture of my group. We have so many guests for midday prayer that we had to put the campers in the lower stalls – thus the poor picture with [...]
Saint John’s Prep School Summer Leadership Camp begins!
It was a pleasure to host the first week of Summer Leadership Camp as sponsored by Saint John’s Preparatory School. This week’s camp was for the ladies and they were a delightful group to have visit the Abbey Church for a tour wrapping up with midday prayer with the monks and other guests. They are [...]
YTM on campus again this summer!
YTM (Youth in Theology and Ministry) is back on campus this summer. YTM is an excellent program for high school age young people and their counselors (who are in college or post grad) to allowing them to explore their Christian Catholic faith in a very deliberate and intense way. The program this summer is fashioned [...]
Three Chapels Devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Here is a short photo tour of three out-of-the-way chapels in Minnesota that are dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
GRASSHOPPER CHAPEL, COLD SPRING MN
(Dedicated to Mariä Himmelfahrt or the Assumption)
Last summer, while driving back from an afternoon birthday tea for my mother, the idea came to me to visit the Grasshopper Chapel at Cold Spring. [...]
NCYC Students return to Saint John’s campus!
NCYC (National Catholic Youth Choir) has recently returned to campus for their two week summer program. I and a sister from the Monastic Community of Saint Benedict in Saint Joseph, joined the high school aged students for lunch and then spoke about vocations and answered questions. This was an exceptionally gifted group of young people that were a [...]
Saint Mary’s School, Melrose, MN!
I had the pleasure of hosting about 30 students from Saint Mary’s Catholic School in Melrose, Minnesota this morning. We toured the Great Hall and the Abbey Church. They went on to enjoy a presentation of the Saint John’s Bible and after lunch on campus will be doing a tour of the Arboretum.
Below are two [...]
